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The Long Zoom
Listened to a fascinating podcast today from the Long Now Foundation on, among other things, why TV shows like “Lost” and video games like “World of Warcraft” are addictive, how the upcoming game “Spore” may have profound educational potential to help teach what the author calls the “Long Zoom”. “…the value of a long zoom is in identifying and employing every scale between the very large and very small”. - Long Views » Blog Archive » Steven Johnson, Consilience defeats miasma
